"quantum physics he learned from Van Horne. He plans to kill the other two witches next but doesn't, possibly because Sukie seduces him. Alexandra returns to New Mexico, where she previously settled with her second husband after first leaving Eastwick, and Sukie moves to Manhattan with Christopher. The Widows of Eastwick The Widows of Eastwick is the final novel by John Updike, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning ""Rabbit"" series. First published in 2008, it is a sequel to his novel ""The Witches of Eastwick"". Thirty years have passed since Alexandra Spofford, Jane Smart and Sukie Rougemont terrorized the Rhode Island"
"was commissioned to hand-carve all the wooden signs for the businesses shown in the movie, including the newspaper where Michelle Pfeiffer's character worked – ""The Eastwick Word"". The musical score for ""The Witches of Eastwick"" was composed by John Williams. A soundtrack album was released by Warner Bros. Records in 1987. ""The Witches of Eastwick"" received positive reviews. It currently holds a rating of 74% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 31 reviews, with the consensus ""A wickedly funny tale of three witches and their duel with the Devil, fueled by some delicious fantasy and arch comedic performances."" On Metacritic, based"
"and now they must do everything to stop it and defeat the witches. ""The Witches"" was originally published in 1983 by Jonathan Cape in London, with illustrations by Quentin Blake (like many of Dahl's works). The book was adapted into an unabridged audio reading by Lynn Redgrave (), a stage play and a two-part radio dramatisation for the BBC, a 1990 movie directed by Nicolas Roeg which starred Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson, and an opera by Marcus Paus and Ole Paus. A seven-year-old British boy goes to live with his Norwegian grandmother after his parents are killed in a"
"a playful novel about witches living in Rhode Island. He described it as an attempt to ""make things right with my, what shall we call them, feminist detractors"". One of Updike's most popular novels, it was adapted as a film and included on Harold Bloom's list of canonical 20th-century literature (in ""The Western Canon""). In 2008 Updike published ""The Widows of Eastwick"", a return to the witches in their old age. It was his last published novel. In 1986, he published the unconventional novel ""Roger's Version"", the second volume of the so-called ""Scarlet Letter"" trilogy, about an attempt to prove"
"Previewing 24 June 2000 and opening 18 July 2000 in the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, ""The Witches of Eastwick"" was based upon the John Updike novel of the same name and also upon the motion picture directed by George Miller. The director who 'fixed' previous show, ""The Fix"" for its American premiere, Eric D. Schaeffer, was employed to head the new production. The original cast featured Ian McShane in the role of 'Darryl Van Horne' with Lucie Arnaz, Maria Friedman and Joanna Riding as the three witches, 'Alexandra', 'Sukie' and 'Jane'. The show was transferred to the Prince of Wales"
"just for Anjelica Huston's obvious delight in playing a completely uncompromised villainess."" However, Roald Dahl himself regarded the film as ""utterly appalling"" because of the ending that contrasted with his book. The Witches (1990 film) The Witches is a 1990 British/American dark fantasy horror-comedy film based on the 1983 children's novel of the same title by Roald Dahl, directed by Nicolas Roeg and stars Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson, and Jasen Fisher. As in the original novel, the story features evil witches who masquerade as ordinary women and kill children, and a boy and his grandmother need to find"
"was later adapted for television. Dorothy Edwards Dorothy Edwards (6 November 1914 – 8 August 1982) was a children's writer from England best known for her ""My Naughty Little Sister"" book series and novel ""The Witches and the Grinnygog"" (1981). She was born on 6 November 1914 as Dorothy Violet Ellen Brown into a working-class family in Teddington, Richmond Upon Thames. Her mother's maiden name was Saunders. Her father taught her to read at an early age, enabling her to write her first story at four years of age. Her stories, poems and articles were published throughout her twenties, and"
"later another petition was organised in an attempt to obtain pardons for Chattox and Demdike. It followed the Swiss government's pardon earlier that year of Anna Göldi, beheaded in 1782, thought to be the last person in Europe to be executed as a witch. William Harrison Ainsworth, a Victorian novelist considered in his day the equal of Dickens, wrote a romanticised account of the Pendle witches published in 1849. ""The Lancashire Witches"" is the only one of his 40 novels never to have been out of print. The British writer Robert Neill dramatised the events of 1612 in his novel"
"The Witches (1990 film) The Witches is a 1990 British/American dark fantasy horror-comedy film based on the 1983 children's novel of the same title by Roald Dahl, directed by Nicolas Roeg and stars Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson, and Jasen Fisher. As in the original novel, the story features evil witches who masquerade as ordinary women and kill children, and a boy and his grandmother need to find a way to foil and destroy them. ""The Witches"" was produced by Jim Henson Productions for Lorimar Film Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. as the last theatrical film to be"
"also popular through much of the 18th century; as late as 1782, Charles Dibdin had a success with his pantomime ""The Lancashire Witches, or The Distresses of Harlequin."" The Heywood/Brome and Shadwell versions were reprinted together in an 1853 volume titled ""The Poetry of Witchcraft."" Laird Barber produced a modern edition of the play in 1979, under its traditional title. When Gabriel Egan produced another modern edition in 2002, he employed the title ""The Witches of Lancashire,"" in the judgement that this reflected the play as performed in 1634. (The second title derives from a letter dated 16 August 1634"
"Witch Week Witch Week is a children's fantasy novel and school story by the British writer Diana Wynne Jones, published by Macmillan Children's Books in 1982. It was the third published of seven Chrestomanci books. ""Witch Week"" is set during the last four days of October 1981 at Larwood House, a boarding school in southern England, in a world parallel and close to ours. Many people have magical powers (""witches"", male or female) but their use is a capital crime and convicted witches are burnt to death. The story begins with a teacher's discovery of an ambiguous note and dilemma"
"Dorothy Edwards Dorothy Edwards (6 November 1914 – 8 August 1982) was a children's writer from England best known for her ""My Naughty Little Sister"" book series and novel ""The Witches and the Grinnygog"" (1981). She was born on 6 November 1914 as Dorothy Violet Ellen Brown into a working-class family in Teddington, Richmond Upon Thames. Her mother's maiden name was Saunders. Her father taught her to read at an early age, enabling her to write her first story at four years of age. Her stories, poems and articles were published throughout her twenties, and at this time she married"
"O’Malley’s book, ""The Rook"". The show will be shown on Hulu and a yet to be announced UK channel. In July 2016, it was announced that she had written an adult action thriller titled ""The Chemist"", about ""an ex-agent on the run from her former employers"". The book was released on November 8, 2016. Stephenie Meyer Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan; ; born December 24, 1973) is an American novelist and film producer, best known for her vampire romance series ""Twilight"". The ""Twilight"" novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies, with translations into 37 different languages. Meyer"
"for her role in ""The Witches of Eastwick"". In 2004 she recorded a song for the CD ""Weird & Wonderful - A Collection Of Songs by Alexander S. Bermange celebrating weirdos and weirdness"", featuring sixteen West End stars (released on Dress Circle Records). She can be heard on the cast recordings of ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""The Boy Friend"", ""Bitter Sweet"", ""Kismet"", ""The Student Prince"", ""Song of Norway"", ""Oliver"", ""The Killer Soprano"", ""The Witches of Eastwick"", ""Serious Cabaret"", ""Mary Poppins"" amongst others. Rosemary Ashe Rosemary Ashe (born 28 March 1953) is an English stage actress and classically trained opera"
"from her books and in 1945 her novel ""Midnight House"" became ""The Unseen"", directed by Lewis Allen. Shortly after that came an adaptation of ""Some Must Watch"", one of White's earlier novels. Again the name of the novel was changed and became ""The Spiral Staircase"" gaining a Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nomination for Ethel Barrymore. Ethel Lina White Ethel Lina White (1876 – 13 August 1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel ""The Wheel Spins"" (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, ""The Lady Vanishes"" (1938), was based. Born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1876. White"
"of the first series, ""Upstairs, Downstairs or the secrets of an Edwardian household"", was written by John Hawkesworth and published in 1972. Hawkesworth also wrote the series two novelisation, ""In My Lady's Chamber"" and this was published in 1973. The following year, Mollie Hardwick's novelisation of the third series, ""The Years of Change"", was published and she also wrote the 1975 ""The War to End Wars"", the fourth series novelisation. The fifth series, which was longer than the others, was novelised in two books, both by Michael Hardwick and published in 1975. They were called ""On With The Dance"" and"
"Ethel Lina White Ethel Lina White (1876 – 13 August 1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel ""The Wheel Spins"" (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, ""The Lady Vanishes"" (1938), was based. Born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1876. White grew up in Fairlea Grange, which was built in the 1880s by her father, and started writing as a child, contributing essays and poems to children's papers. Later she began to write short stories, but it was some years before she wrote books. She left employment in a government job working for the Ministry of"
"(1985) was published by Hodder & Stoughton, as was most of her speculative fiction. ""The King Awakes"" and ""The Empty Throne"", 1987 and 1988 novels illustrated by Grahame Baker, are an ""Arthurian sequence for older children"", also known as ""The Sword and the Dream"" (series) after the title of its two-volume reissue. Elliott worked on the screenplays of two commercial films connected with novels of hers: ""The Buttercup Chain"" (1970) and ""Secret Places"" (1984). Janice Elliott Janice Elliott (13 October 1931 – 25 July 1995) was a prolific English fiction writer, journalist and children's writer. Her novels are not currently"
"The Deptford Mice and The Deptford Histories series. Robin Jarvis Robin Jarvis (born 8 May 1963) is a British Young-Adult fiction (YA) and children's novelist, who writes dark fantasy, suspense and supernatural thrillers. His books for Young Adults have featured the inhabitants of a coastal town battling a monumental malevolence with the help of its last supernatural guardian (The Witching Legacy), a diminutive race of Werglers (shape shifters) pitched against the evil might of the faerie hordes (The Hagwood Trilogy), a sinister ""world-switching"" dystopian future, triggered by a sinister and hypnotic book (Dancing Jax), Norse Fates, Glastonbury crow-demons and a"
"and Jacquelyn Piro Donovan as the three witches. In 2003 a staged reading took place at the Manhattan Theater Club under the direction of Gabriel Barre, starring James Barbour, Emily Skinner, Carolee Carmello and Jennifer Laura Thompson. The show received its amateur premiere in Australia in July 2005. Over a dozen licensed productions followed in the UK and Ireland. The license was withdrawn due to the 2008 UK tour, with a single amateur company being permitted to stage a concurrent production in October 2008. Setting: the fictional Rhode Island town of Eastwick A little girl sings the praises of her"
"written by Nathaniel Tomkyns, a member of the audience. The run-on title in the 1634 quarto, positioned along the tops of the pages, is also ""The Witches of Lancashire"".) The Late Lancashire Witches The Late Lancashire Witches is a Caroline-era stage play and written by Thomas Heywood and Richard Brome, published in 1634. The play is a topical melodrama on the subject of the witchcraft controversy that arose in Lancashire in 1633. The play was performed by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre. It was a popular success; it ran for three consecutive days in August 1634, at a"
"African dictatorship inspired by a visit he made to Africa, found Updike working in new territory. In 1980, he published another novel featuring Harry Angstrom, ""Rabbit Is Rich"", which won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction—all three major American literary prizes. The novel found ""Rabbit the fat and happy owner of a Toyota dealership."" Updike found it difficult to end the book, because he was ""having so much fun"" in the imaginary county Rabbit and his family inhabited. After writing ""Rabbit Is Rich"", Updike published ""The Witches of Eastwick"" (1984),"
"Angels family vault in Haworth. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë (, ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, ""Wuthering Heights"", now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Market Street in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in Northern"
"Diane Setterfield Diane Setterfield (born 22 August 1964) is a British author whose 2006 debut novel, ""The Thirteenth Tale"", became a ""New York Times"" No. 1 best-seller. It is written in the Gothic tradition, with echoes of ""Jane Eyre"" and ""Wuthering Heights"". The rights were acquired by David Heyman at Heyday Films and the novel was adapted for television by Christopher Hampton. Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Olivia Colman, and Sophie Turner, ""The Thirteenth Tale"" was televised on BBC2 in December 2013. Before writing, Setterfield studied French Literature at The University of Bristol, earning a bachelor of arts in 1986 and a"
"E. L. James Erika Leonard (née Mitchell; born 7 March 1963), known by her pen name E. L. James, is an English author. She wrote the bestselling erotic romance trilogy ""Fifty Shades of Grey"", ""Fifty Shades Darker"", and ""Fifty Shades Freed"", along with the companion novels """" and """"; and under the name Snowqueen's Icedragon the Twilight fan fiction ""Master of the Universe"" that was the basis for the Fifty Shades trilogy. The combined novels have sold over 125 million copies worldwide, over 35 million copies in the United States and set the record in the United Kingdom as the"
"Ellen Wood (author) Ellen Wood (née Price; 17 January 181410 February 1887), was an English novelist, better known as Mrs. Henry Wood. She is best remembered for her 1861 novel ""East Lynne"", but many of her books became international bestsellers and widespread in the United States. In her time, she surpassed the fame of Charles Dickens in Australia. Ellen Price was born in Worcester in 1814. In 1836 she married Henry Wood, who worked in the banking and shipping trade in Dauphiné in the South of France, where they lived for 20 years. On the failure of Wood's business, the"
"Gillian Gill Gillian Catherine Gill (born June 12, 1942) is a Welsh-American writer and academic who specializes in biography. She is the author of ""Agatha Christie"" (1990), ""Mary Baker Eddy"" (1998), ""Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale"" (2004), and ""We Two: Victoria and Albert, Rulers, Partners, Rivals"" (2009). Gill (née Scobie) was born in Cardiff, Wales. She attended Cardiff High School for Girls, and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first-class honours degree in French, Italian, and Latin. She obtained her Ph.D. in March 1972, also from Cambridge, for a thesis entitled ""André"
"Penelope Lively Dame Penelope Margaret Lively (born Penelope Margaret Low, 17 March 1933) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. Lively has won both the Booker Prize (""Moon Tiger"", 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books (""The Ghost of Thomas Kempe"", 1973). Lively first achieved success with children's fiction. Her first book, ""Astercote"", was published by Heinemann in 1970. It is a low fantasy novel set in a Cotswolds village and the neighbouring woodland site of a medieval village wiped out by Plague. Lively published more than twenty books for children, achieving particular recognition"
"Diana of the Crossways Diana of the Crossways is a novel by George Meredith which was published in 1885. It is an account of an intelligent and forceful woman trapped in a miserable marriage and was prompted by Meredith's friendship with society beauty and author Caroline Norton. The heroine Diana Warwick says: ""we women are the verbs passive of the alliance, we have to learn, and if we take to activity, with the best intentions, we conjugate a frightful disturbance. We are to run on lines, like the steam-trains, or we come to no station, dash to fragments. I have"
"The Witches (novel) The Witches is a children's fantasy novel by the British writer Roald Dahl. The story is set partly in Norway and partly in the United Kingdom, and features the experiences of a young British boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country. The witches are all ruled by the extremely vicious and powerful Grand High Witch, who in the story has just arrived in England to organise her worst plot ever. But an elderly former witch hunter and her young grandson find out about the evil plan"
"in the novel ""The Ladies"" by Doris Grumbach (1984). Anna Seward Anna Seward (12 December 174225 March 1809) was a long-eighteenth-century English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield. Seward was the eldest of two surviving daughters of Thomas Seward (1708–1790), prebendary of Lichfield and Salisbury, and author, and his wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth Seward later had three further children (John, Jane and Elizabeth) who all died in infancy, and two stillbirths. Anna Seward mourned their loss in her poem ""Eyam"" (1788). Born in 1742 at Eyam, a small mining village in the Peak District of Derbyshire where her father"
"series. ""Frankenstein's Legions"" at Spark Furnace John Whitbourn John Whitbourn (born 1958) is an English author of novels and short stories focusing on alternative histories set in a 'Catholic' universe. His works are characterised by wry humour, the reality of magic and a sustained attempt to reflect on the interaction between religion and politics on a personal and social scale. Whitbourn is an archaeology graduate and published author since 1987. His first book, ""A Dangerous Energy"", won the BBC/Victor Gollancz Fantasy Novel Prize (judged by, amongst others, Terry Pratchett) in 1991. In 1562, Elizabeth I suffered from a near-fatal bout"
"The Lancashire Witches The Lancashire Witches is the only one of William Harrison Ainsworth's forty novels that has remained continuously in print since its first publication. It was serialised in the ""Sunday Times"" newspaper in 1848; a book edition appeared the following year, published by Henry Colburn. The novel is based on the true story of the Pendle witches, who were executed in 1612 for causing harm by witchcraft. Modern critics such as David Punter consider the book to be Ainsworth's best work. E. F. Bleiler rated the novel as ""one of the major English novels about witchcraft"". The subject"